<p>Snow…?</p>
<p>Try Tornados here.</p>
<p>Try FOG thick enough you can’t see the traffic lights. >_> </p>
<p>(admittedly, it is much less dramatic than a tornado, but HEY I value seeing traffic lights when I drive. )</p>
<p>Okay, so. I just got rejected by Johns Hopkins <em>and</em> Wellesley.</p>
<p>My whole body’s revolting against Tuesday decisions.</p>
<p>I’m going to pretend that it’s because they secretly hate all internationals and are actively trying to reduce the diversity in their schools.</p>
<p>(Also, many thanks to Butternut/limetime/Me=pomegranate!! for the support :\ <3)</p>
<p>I got waitlisted at johns Hopkins meh 
I hope that doesn’t say anything about my chances at Yale…</p>
<p>I’m so sorry to hear that, IndiaRubber and Icestorm! :(</p>
<p>you guys are def. great applicants! Keep your hopes up!</p>
<p>Oh I’m so sorry! We just need to tell ourselves that each decision is independent of the others and getting rejected at one school doesn’t = rejection from an equal or better school. </p>
<p>I hope.</p>
<p>oh yeah, i never posted it here,</p>
<p>-waitlisted at JHU-</p>
<p>…it happens</p>
<p>Honestly, I do not even know my chances at Yale. It is so ridiculous.</p>
<p>^^i would say it’s the number of spots availible divided by the number of applicants</p>
<p>^ Clever boy.</p>
<p>hahaha
so funny
I mean, I do not know what my chances are because I applied to two schools</p>
<p>IndiaRubber: Those <em>insert HORRIBLE name here</em>'s are missing out. You are an AMAZING person, and you’re into a freaking MEDICAL SCHOOL. Keep your chin up, we all love you on this board and think that these colleges have flipping clue what they’re doing.
Because you’re a ridiculously smart person.</p>
<p>pomegranate and Icestorm: I’m really sorry guys, you are also amazing and I’m genuinely shocked that you didn’t get in. What the freak is going on?!?!?!</p>
<p>Also, IndiaRubber, it may have just been the fact that you’re an international and applied for financial aid. In which case, the colleges are stupid. Because you’re too good for them!</p>
<p>However… I actually have some news of my own.
I got accepted to Williams :)</p>
<p>I got accepted to Williams too! It’s really helping me not be so focused on Tuesday…</p>
<p>But, I got waitlisted by University of Chicago and rejected by MIT. Just goes to show that no single admission/rejection says anything about any of the other schools.</p>
<p>I don’t know what the colleges that rejected Me=pomegranate!!, Icestorm, and IndiaRubber were thinking… well, actually, they obviously weren’t.</p>
<p>Congratulations to EVERYONE.</p>
<p>I’ve been on these boards for quite some time (ignore my join date).</p>
<p>I’m certain everyone of you guys is going to go to a kickass (pardon the French) school, no matter hell or high water.</p>
<p>Response to previous:
@ The prophet:</p>
<p>I think the vast majority of Muslim countries (and the vast majority of Muslims I know) don’t condemn those things, either though public opinion that gets heard, or through official condemnation.</p>
<p>For instance; Iran’s president tells me there are no gays in Iran. </p>
<p>Problem is, his government also has the well documented policies of executing gays for being gay.</p>
<p>In several Islamic countries, it’s illegal for me to BE in certain areas, simply because of who I am.</p>
<p>@ Galess (I think it was you): China’s military, along with China’s economy is the stuff of propaganda.</p>
<p>In the same way that over half of their so called ‘growth’ has really been government cash dumping ( I notice they aren’t ‘building cities’ any more…wonder what happened to that), the military of the People’s Republic is like a game of show and tell.</p>
<p>The money spent on the American military (US$515.4 billion for 2009) is almost as much as the rest of the world combined. Adjusted for purchasing power, we spend eight times as much as does China.</p>
<p>The threat that China poses to us isn’t military; they have no means to fight unconventionally, and about as much motive to do so as they do to fight/deter us in a conventional manner. What they DO pose a problem in is our trade weakness. We’re still import drunks.</p>
<p>I’m also in at Williams. Now I feel way more relaxed for Tuesday, because Williams was in a 3-way tie for my top school with Yale and Harvard, so even if I get rejected from both I’ll be totally fine.</p>
<p>^ Way to go dude.</p>
<p>@ No2EULA. Thanks, man. I hear you on the point you made about being in specific areas. I am literally not allowed to set foot in certain Islamic countries because of my religion, and I think this is unacceptable.</p>
<p>And I also agree with you about China. However, their economy is (was?) indeed extremely strong, and our penchant for imports will most definitely hurt us. China is a force to be reckoned with, still, and they control a large portion of the world’s power and economic “pie”.
And yes, they don’t pose a military threat to the U.S.</p>
<p>Don’t even get me started on Iran’s president…</p>
<p>to mnfm: CONGRATULATIONS! Maybe you, limetime, and I will see each other at Williams Previews (which I am MOST DEFINITELY going to!)</p>
<p>Congrats goldenratiophi! Are you going to Previews?
The only thing dampening my happiness about Williams are the rejections/waitlists of a lot of you on this thread… college admissions is just ridiculous. (Grr IndiaRubber!)</p>
<p>And yeah, Williams is tied with Yale for my top choice.
So at least I can go into Tuesday without as much anxiety, and thinking of purple cows while clicking the dreaded Eli link.</p>
<p>This is a pretty awesome way to ease the anxiety.
The site itself uses a (…simple…) sorting algorithm to rate the…well…You’ll see.</p>
<p>[Kittenwar</a>! May The Cutest Kitten Win!](<a href=“http://kittenwar.com/]Kittenwar”>http://kittenwar.com/)</p>
<p>EULA, they may not spend as much militarily, but in terms of the potential size of their army they’re a potent force-they probably wouldn’t be the most well-equipped army, but in conventional, non-nuclear war they could pretty much just overwhelm any other country cuz Mao’s idea during the cold war was that at the end of a limited nuclear exchange between Russia, and the US, the few thousand survivors would be overwhelmed by millions of Chinese, if it ever came to that
wow, kind of a heavy topic for a magical thread lol</p>